• Keep "The American History and Civics Education Act of 2004” off of the “suspension calendar.” The suspension calendar is for non-controversial bills. This new bill is nothing more than the old H.R. 1078 which could not make it out of the House Education Committee, and ten House members removed their names as its co-sponsors.
• Oppose The American History and Civics Education Act of 2004.” Tell them we don't want it.
• The Constitution prohibits the federal government from setting up federal academies. Authority over education is a power reserved to the states. The federal government has no authority to set up federal academies to teach students or teachers. This bill is a violation of our Constitution.
• Federal academies will teach the anti-American and controversial Federal Curriculum (We The People: The Citizen and the Constitution) and the National History Standards. The federal government has funded federal standards and the Federal Curriculum (We The People and the National History Standards) in civics and government and in history that are anti-American. They are being used as the basis for the federal test, the NAEP. This Federal Curriculum undermines the basic principles of freedom that are set forth in the Declaration of Independence, such as national sovereignty, inalienable rights, and self-evident truth, the 2nd amendment and the 9th and 10th amendments of limited government.

Analysis of "We The People"
If you want to know what the passage of this legislation would mean to our country and to our heritage, look at We The People: The Citizen and the Constitution, the federally sanctioned and funded textbook on American Government -- the ONLY textbook directly sanctioned and funded by federal law.

You will notice that national sovereignty is never mentioned once in the entire textbook on American government. In the unit that describes what rights the Bill of Rights protects, the second, ninth, and tenth amendments are never mentioned. These amendments protect our right to keep and bear arms, and they reserve all powers not enumerated in the Constitution to the states and people, respectively.

Then go to Lesson 37 (high school level). You will notice that instead of national sovereignty, the textbook promotes the "global village" and  promotes world citizenship.

You will see that the lesson ends with this question: "Do you think that world citizenship is possible in your lifetime?"

If you go to the last lesson in the textbook, Lesson 40, titled, "What is meant by returning to fundamental principles?" states:

"The Founders, themselves, were vigorous critics of the wisdom they inherited and the principles in which they believed. They were articulate, opinionated individuals who loved to examine ideas, to analyze, argue and debate them. They expected no less of future generations. They would expect no less of you." [p. 214]

In other words, there are no fundamental principles. This radical teaching of civics and government is undermining our national sovereignty, our Constitution and our Bill of Rights.

Finally, you will see the section titled, "What is meant by teaching the Bill of Rights?" It states:

"As fundamental and lasting as its guarantees have been [past tense], the U.S. Bill of Rights is a document of the eighteenth century, reflecting the issues and concerns of the age in which it was written.. . . " [p. 207]

In other words, the Bill of Rights may have been useful for people 200 years ago, but it is not necessarily useful for us today.

It is impossible and dangerous to imagine that the Federal Academies in "The American History and Civics Education Act of 2004" will not teach the Federal Curriculum that is sanctioned and funded by federal law.